She described struggling to discuss this issue with colleagues.
"The ethnic cleansing continues now," she said of Israel's actions.
"We all deserve to live freely and with human dignity."
"What they are doing to the Palestinians is what they are doing to our Black brothers and sisters here," @RashidaTlaib told the crowd.
"As you all are marching for freedom of Palestine, please know that you must be marching for everybody's freedom."
"It's all interconnected."
"If you are Black, this is your fight. If you are Latino, this is your fight. If you are South Asian, this is your fight. If you're white, this is your fight. If you're Jewish, this is sure enough your fight," said @RepAndreCarson.
PHOTO THREAD: Today #FreePalestine protesters marched from the State Department to the White House demanding the end of Israeli settlement and displacement of Palestinians.
Two members of congress spoke out at the rally in front of the State Department: @RashidaTlaib and @RepAndreCarson.
Both emphasized an intersection between struggles like Black Lives Matter and the Free Palestinian movement.
One somewhat unconventional element of the event was a giant replica tank.
It is not motorized (activists had to push/pull it) and was actually built for Columbia protests also taking place in DC.
"Demilitarize the budget" and "Healthcare not warfare" it says on the sides.
Today protesters with @XRebelDC & @ShutDown_DC targeted several @WellsFargo bank branches in DC to demand they stop funding Line 3 Pipeline.
When group arrived at the branch near Freedom Plaza, officers toppled over their makeshift oil drums as they got behind the police line.
As the activists began smearing fake oil onto the windows of the Wells Fargo branch, a shirtless man confronted the group, getting up in their faces and threatening to fight for the bank's private property.
Officers removed the man when he grabbed someone's sign.
"STOP LINE 3" the @XRebelDC activists left behind written into the fake oil smear on the Wells Fargo branch.
I've filmed them do this before; the substance is food dye, corn starch, and water. It washes away easily.
A few days ago I got home from #ElizabethCity, where I'd spent week covering the movement demanding answers and the release of bodycam footage in the death of #AndrewBrown.
Pic thread coming, but wanted to say: This story really burned me out. I apologize for lateness of photos.
"Would you demand footage if it was your son?"
I first arrived in #ElizabethCity on April 28th, which was be the second day of peaceful activism since the "State of Emergency" was declared as the state reviewed the bodycam footage and refused to release it.
I only took video rather than photo in the evening, but a few hours after those photos, police arrested activists and charged them with disorderly conduct and violating curfew for continuing to speak out past 8pm.